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P. A. NEIDER.

L OOP FOR CARRIAGE CURTAINS. No. 276,269. Patented Apr. 24,1883.

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FRED A. NEIDER, OF AUGUSTA, KENTUCKY.

LOOP FOR CARRIAGE-CURTAINS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 276,269, dated April 24, 1883.

Application filed February 10, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRED A. NEIDER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Augusta, Bracken county, Kentucky, have invented certain Improvements in Strap-Loops for Carriage-Curtains and the like, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has for its object theconstruction of the attaching-plate of the loop distinct from the loop proper, or housing for the ends of the straps, whereby a pressed leather loop or ajapanned metal loop may be employed at will. The attaching-plates, with the buckles, may be manufactured separately from the loops, and'the loops be also manufactured separately, and either of the kind of loops above described may be employed. The rivets for securing the attaching'plate to the curtain or other part pass through the ends of the plate beyond the. points where the buckles are hinged, and the buckle is held between the said plate and the material of the curtain or other part.

In the drawings which serve to illustrate my invention, Figure l is a perspective view of the attaching-plate detached. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the loop or housing detached. Fig. 3 is a vertical mid-section of the strap-loop shown attached to the curtain or other part, and Fig. 4 is a plan of the latter.

.Figs. 5 and 6 illustrate slight modifications,

showing means for preventing the buckles from becoming detached from the plate.

Let A represent the'attaching-plate, which is usually stamped from sheet metal and japannjed. This plate has a middle portion, a, which extends through the tubular loop, a recess, b, formed at each end by bending the plate to receive the pivot-bar of the buckleperforations c at its ends to receiveat-tachingrivets, and apertures (Z in the crowns of the recesses b for the'passage ofthebuckle-tongues.

B is the loop or housing, which is a rectangular tube usually made from pressed leather or thin metal plate. In Fig. 2 I have shown such a loop made from pressed leatherin awellknown way.

0 G are the buckles, and D is the curtain or other part to which the strap-loop is attached. In applying my strap-loop in practice the plate A is passed through the loop B, the

buckles inserted by passing their tongues through the apertures 01, and arranging their hinge-bars to rest in the recesses I). The plate A is then secured to the curtain D by means of rivets e e. The length of the middle portion, a, of the attaching-plate being the same as that of the loop B, it will be seen that the buckles prevent the loop from moving endwise, while the plate holds it firmly down upon the curtain or other part, D.

This strap-loop is very simple and economical in its construction, and is very easily attached, the attaching-rivets being exteriorly arranged and easily accessible. Being also made up of four distinct parts-namely, the plate, the loop, and the two buckles-it is ob-; vious that these may all be made and sold separately, if desired, and one form of plate A may serve for various styles of buckles and loops.

In some cases it may be desirable to sell the plates A with the buckles removably attached theretothat is, so attached that they,

or one of them, may be readily removed in order to pass the plate through the loop. It is true the buckles are in a sense attached to the plate when the tongues are passed through the apertures cl; but this willhardlyinsure their being held in place for rough handling and packing. Thereforelhave shown in Figs. Sand 6 two means of attachment which may be employed. In Fig. 5 I have shown a tongue,f, formed on the end of the plate A. When the buckle is placed this tongue is bent back, as clearly 8 shown, and rests across the hinging-recess b. K

In Fig. 6 I have shown said tongue formed from the metal removed or displaced in forming the aperture (1. Instamping the plate this metal is forced out and down, but left atfastenings are not usually reliable, and it me me cessitates the employment of a metal loop. In some cases the plate has been made and at tached independently of the loop and the loop afterward slipped on. This construction also demands a metal loop. I arrange the fastenings outside of the loop and beyond the buckles, and I am thus enabled to use not only a detached loop, whereby any kind of loop can be employed, but the plate may be attached with rivets after the loop is in place.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- In a strap-loop, the detachable attachingplate A, provided with apertured recesses b 1) near each end to receive the hinging-bar of the buckle, and perforations c c at its ends outside the recesses to receive the attaching-rivets, whereby any of theusual kinds of loops and buckles may be employed, as set forth.

2. Thecombinatiomtoform astrap-loopnvith the loop proper, B, and bucklesC U, of theattaching-plate A, comprising a plate with a central part, a, arranged to extend through the loop proper, two apertured hinging-recesses, b b, for the buckles, and two perforations, c c, at its ends for the attaching-rivets, all constructed and arranged to operate substantially as set forth.

3. A strap-loop comprising a loop proper, buckles, and an attaching-plate, and said attaching-plate provided with hinging-recesses for the buckles, and perforations outside of 30 and beyond said hinging-recesses to receive the rivets for attaching the plate to the curtain or other part, substantially as set forth.

In witness .whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

RED E DER- Witnesses:

JOHN M- .HAnBnsQN, GEORGE GROSSMANN. 

